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SUBMITTER: Experton J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746935 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Experton Juliette J Wu Xiaojian X Martin Charles R CR
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20171214 12
Asymmetrically shaped nanopores have been shown to rectify the ionic current flowing through pores in a fashion similar to a p-n junction in a solid-state diode. Such asymmetric nanopores include conical pores in polymeric membranes and pyramidal pores in mica membranes. We review here both theoretical and experimental aspects of this ion current rectification phenomenon. A simple intuitive model for rectification, stemming from previously published more quantitative models, is discussed. We als ...[more]